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| Keywords: Master of the Virgo inter Virgines - Saint Sebastian and a Bishop Saint - Walters 37299.jpg The ethereal but naively drawn figures set against a landscape of flattened mounds are typical of the haunting compositions of this master identified only through a group of works related to a painting of the Virgo inter Virgines Virgin among Virgins now in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam The small town of Delft where woodcuts of his designs were published and where he is presumed to have worked was far from the sophisticated cities to the south such as Bruges and Ghent Elongated panels such as this one typically functioned as the wings of an altarpiece The presence of a coat of arms with the fleur-de-lys lily of France suggests that the altarpiece may have been commissioned for someone connected with the French royal court between 1480 1495 Early Modern oil wood cm 76 5 39 9 accession number 37 299 33395 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 place of origin Delft Netherlands Walters Art Museum license 2D Renaissance paintings in the Walters Art Museum Medieval art in the Walters Art Museum Master of the Virgo inter Virgines Paintings in the Walters Art Museum | ||||
